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Weekend project
I want you to imagine your dining room table right now. Is it covered in paperwork? Piled high with homework? Stacked with mail or dirty dishes?
If you can’t see the top of your dining room table, what do you need to do to be able to see it?
Whatever it is, do it now. Clean the clutter off of your table and make it a place where you can sit down and eat your meal tonight (and tomorrow and the next …).
If your table is clear, are there other horizontal surfaces in your home cluttered to the point that they aren’t serving their functions? If this is the case, clean the clutter off of those surfaces instead for your weekend task.
When clearing the clutter, don’t just move stacks around, actually take the time to do the job right. Do the work, then enjoy the benefits of your effort!
Pictured is my dining room. The table is by sculptor Michael Sirvet.
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Space-saving tables at CB2
While on a recent trip to Chicago, I visited the Lincoln Ave. location of CB2, Crate and Barrel’s spin-off modern furniture store. I’d been receiving the CB2 catalog in the mail for the past year or so, but this was the first time I had made it into a store. Honestly, it looked similar to a Crate and Barrel, but without the vast kitchen gadgets’ section.
The store definitely caters to urban dwellers. As a result, I was glad to see many space-saving and uncluttered solutions. My favorite item was the Speakeasy High Dining Table (pictured). Here is its product description from the website:
All-in-one, two-party dining table/cocktail bar/storage cabinet has amazing legroom and legions of stash space. Two flush, swing-out doors per side are outfitted with interior box shelves to hide bar stuff, coasters, gadgets. Two open fixed shelves, either side again, take on wine, spirits, drinkware, cookbooks, even our tins of flatware. Clean, no-hardware aesthetic.
Another of my favorites was the Envelope Dining Table. “Two leaves hide inside and glide effortlessly on a ball bearing mechanism to extend hospitality: seat 6 without leaves, 8 with one leaf, a party of 10 with two.”
I’m not the biggest Crate and Barrel fan on the planet, but I definitely saw uncluttered inspiration in some of these new CB2 pieces. If you’re in the market for space-saving and efficient dining pieces, you may want to give CB2 a look.
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